Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 8
Schacabac reached out his plate, and received nothing on it with great chearfulness.
Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: reach out, receive · To what, where: plate, nothing
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Schacabac.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 reached | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 plate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 received | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 received | cc |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 received | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 received | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 chearfulness | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chearfulness | amod |
| 14 | chearfulness | chearfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 received | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach out | past | Schacabac | Schacabac's plate | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | nothing | plate | with great chearfulness | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme on it=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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